The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-18
OGLESBY'S DECISION.
The Governor Of Illinois Seals the
Fate Of the Anarchists.
sFieIden and schwab's Sentence COMMITTED
Spies, Parsons! Fischer and Engei
Required TO Pay the PENALTY -Iings
Kills Himself in His Cell.
fHEfR FATE ANNOUNCED.


SPRING IEtti, III. N6T. 1i;-At7 o'clock last
evening the Governors Secretary announced
from the steps of the Executive niaasiSn that
the Governor had decided not to interfere in
the cases of Spies, Parsons. Fischer, Engel and
Iingg; bit H6taid commute to life imprison-
ment ahs Sentences Ct FielAen and Schwab.
The decision Ct tbs Governor in the moments
GUS case is as follows:
Estate OF ILLINOIS, EXECUTIVE CSFteE,
SPRINGFIELD. Ill, Nov. 10.-On the Goth day
of August, 1886, in the Cook County criminal
court, August Spies, Albert R. Parsons, Sam
bel Tieldens MiehaeI Ssh5Tab, Adolph Fischer,
George Engsl ana Louis Lingg were found
guilty by the verdict Of the Jury and afterward
sentenced to be hanged for the tnHrder 5f Mat:
HAS ]. Began
San appeal was taken from such finding and
sentence to the Supreme Court Of the State:
That court, upon final hearing aid after
mature deiiberation, unanimously affirmed
the judgment CT the court below The
ease now comes before me by petition of the
Defendants for consideration as Governor Of
the State, il ting latters Of Albert Parsons,
Adolph Fischer, George Engel ana LOFTS Linas
demanding unconditional release, or as they
express it, liberty or DEATH, and protesting III
the strongest language against mercy or COM
mutation OF the sentence pronounced against
| them, can Do considered petitions
Pardon, coIld it Be granted, which might
imply any guilt whatever up6n the part OF
either of them, would not be such VGdicationi
as they demand Executive intervention tpon
the grounds insisted upon by the four above
named persons. 1t could in no proper sense be
deemed an exercise of the constitutional power
| 30 grant repreveS communications and pardon
Unless based upon the belief on my part of the:-
| entire innocence Of The crime of which hey
stand conTicted
a careful consideration Of the evidence In
the record of the trial OF the part es; as well as
of all alleged and claimed for them otitside Of
the record, has failed to produce upoE ny
mind any impression tending to impeach The
verdict of the jury or the Judgment of the trial
courts or of the Supreme Court affirming the
guilt of all these parties. p,
Satisfied, therefore, as I am, of their guilt, I
am prbcladed from considering the question of
Communication of the sentences of Albert II. Par
sons, Adolph Fischer; George Nngel and Louis
Lingg to imprisonment in the penitentiary, as
they emphatical}y declare they viii not ACC ept
such communication
'Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab and &ui
| gust Spies unite in petition for EXECUTIVE
| cemency.' F!elden and Schwab, in addition,
present separate and supplementary petitions
for the Communication of their sentences. While,
as said above; satisfied ofs,tho guilt of all
the parties as found by the verdict Of the jury,
which was sustained by the judgments OF the
whole subject leads me to the conclusion that
the sentence of the law as to Samuel Fielden
and Michael Schwab may be modified as to
each of them, in the interest of humanity, and
to the said Samuel Eielden and Michael
Schwab the sentence is commuted to mprtson.
ment in the penitentiary for life.
''As to all the other above named defendants,
do not feel justified in interfering with the
sentence of the court. While would gladly
have come to different conclusion in regard
to the sentence of defendants, August Spies,
Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Albert r. Par
| sons and Louis Lingg, I regret to say, that
under the solemn sense OF the obligations OF
my office. have been unable to do so.
.. RICHARD j. OGLESBY, Governor"
HIS OWN EXECUTIONER. .
CHICAGO Nov. 11.-Every thing was as quiet
in the COUNTY jail as usual yesterday morning
until about $3.50 o'clock. when suddenly every
body within the building was startled by a
| loud report such as would be caused by
! the discharge of q shotgun, and for a
moment every one seemed powerless to
| act, as if waiting to see some dire ca
lamity follow. Then it was real Zed that
the report had come from Lingg's cell, and all
the jail offlc ais in the bu lding rushed to the
spot from which the sound had come, with the
exception of Turnkey Pierce, who rushed to
secure the door leading into the visitors hall.
Lingg's cell was entered, and the desperate man
was found lying on hrs face on the cot with the
| whole of the under part of his face and a por-
| ton of his nose blown away. He presented one
! of the most shocking sights that it is possible